Tip-Off #99 - Fiddling for the future

"Without our traditions, our lives would be as shaky as... as... as a fiddler on the roof!"

The Fiddler, by Marc Chagall (1913; Paris). Oil, canvas. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. 188 x 158 cm. Public domain.

Comedian George Carlin called tradition "just peer pressure from dead people.” Today, dead white men have the advantage. Those who argue for the need for tradition are often dismissed as reactionaries. Progress, on the other hand, is celebra…